Gary D. Duzan wrote: > A while back I tossed something together to deal with the same issue > in terms of "futures" (or "promises".) Here is roughly what the above > code would look like with futures as I implemented them:
<snip> > This was all done using plain Python 1.5.2 in 80 lines of code, > including some blank lines and doc strings. Maybe I'll brush off > the code a bit and post it one of these days. > > Gary Duzan > BBN Technologies Hrm. Well to be honest the point is the shallow threads, *not* the main loop and event notifiers. Otherwise I'd just use blocking calls in real threads, or maybe just twisted, and not bother creating anything new, ya know? -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list